STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES
Robert Culp
(Columbia University Press, 2019)
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Amid early twentieth-century China’s epochal shifts, a vital and prolific commercial publishing industry emerged. Recruiting late Qing literati, foreign-trained academics, and recent graduates of the modernized school system to work as … [Read more...]

STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES
Martin T. Fromm
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)
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In the 1980s, as China transitioned to the post-Mao era, a state-sponsored oral history project led to the publication of local, regional, and national histories. They took the form of written and transcribed personal testimonies … [Read more...]

STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES
Alyssa M. Park
(Cornell University Press, 2019)
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Sovereignty Experiments tells the story of how authorities in Korea, Russia, China, and Japan—through diplomatic negotiations, border regulations, legal categorization of subjects and aliens, and cultural policies—competed to control … [Read more...]

STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES
Corey Byrnes
(Columbia University Press, 2018)
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In 1994, workers broke ground on China’s Three Gorges Dam. By its completion in 2012, the dam had transformed the ecology of the Yangzi River, displaced over a million people, and forever altered a landscape immortalized in centuries … [Read more...]

We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: China's Conservative Revolution: The Quest for a New Order, 1927–1949, published by Cambridge University Press. The book's author is Brian Tsui, an Assistant Professor of Chinese Culture at Hong Kong Polytechnic University who earned his PhD at Columbia University.
In … [Read more...]